METHOD 1

You can use Parental Controls in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 to help supervise different user activities which include websites, applications and iChat. What follows describe how this feature functions.

• Log on to your Mac with an administrator account.
• Open “System Preferences” by clicking on the icon in the Dock.
• Go to the “Parental Controls” control panel listed below the “System” heading.
• Click on the lock in the lower-left corner of the screen and enter your administrative username and password.
• Select the account you want to supervise from the list on the left side of the control panel window.
• Go to the “Logs” tab at the top of the window. The control panel will now display all of the websites and applications that the account has accessed within the last week.

Note :

• You need to be the administrator of the Mac and Parental Controls can not be enabled for administrator accounts.
• Mac OS X 10.4 has no “Logs” feature in its Parental Controls which means that this way can only be used in Leopard and Snow Leopard.

METHOD 2

A better approach is to use a Keylogger for Mac. Aobo Mac Keylogger, which supports Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and later, enables Mac owners to view all keystrokes, websites, passwords, screenshots, applications and chats – track all user activities.

It can be set up to any user account you intend to monitor, including administrator accounts. Once you set it up on the user account you wish to monitor, it runs automatically and stealthily with the log on of the user account.

Monitoring Features of Aobo Mac Keylogger.

• Record keystrokes typed on any applications.
• Record website visits from Safari and Firefox.
• Record desktop screenshots in a preset interval.
• Record both-side Aim/Adium/iChat/MSN/Skype chats.
• Record passwords (Professional Edition).

Anyway, if you want to monitor user activities on your Mac, the easy ways mentioned above are your best choices.

Aobo Keylogger for Mac Professional is a keylogger for Mac OS X for recording Passwords on Mac OS X. It records passwords on any applications and websites and includes all the features of the standard edition. Aobo Keylogger for Mac Professional requires Mac admin password to install.

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With Aobo Keylogger for Mac, you can know how your Macbook /iMac / PowerPC has been used while you are away; what your kids are doing online and what your employees were doing in work time.

Aobo Keylogger for Mac Key features

Aobo Keylogger for Mac has two editions: Aobo Keylogger for Mac Standard and Aobo Keylogger for Mac Professional. The main difference between the two editions is the Professional edition can record passwords while the standard edition can not.

• Stealthy and undetectable Monitoring and Recording
• Automatically delete old logs (Keystrokes and Screenshots)
• Pause screenshots capturing when no user activity detected
• Password protection
• Customizable Hot Key
• Easy to Use

• Record all keystrokes typed on any applications
• Record Websites Visited in Safari and Firefox
• Record All instant messenger chat conversations typed at your end
• Record Skype Chat Conversations (both sides)
• Record MSN/Adium/AIM/iChat/Facebook Chat Conversations typed(Both sides).
• Record ICQ, Proteus, Chat Conversations typed at your end
• Record Yahoo Messenger Chat Conversations typed at your end
• Record Desktop Screenshots in a preset interval
• Keystroke and screenshot recording in virtual machine Windows applications (Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion etc )
• Emailed logs can be received and viewed on a PC/PocketPC/Smartphone or any other device can receive emails

• Secretly send the logs to your email(including keystrokes, chats, websites, screenshots)
• Secretly send the logs to your FTP (upload keystrokes, chats, websites and screenshots to ftp space)

• Fully supports Mac OS X 10.4.x, 10.5.x, 10.6.x, 10.7.x and later (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion)
• Universal build (for both Intel and Power PC)
• Supports Macbook/iMac/PowerPC/Macmini

Aobo Keylogger for Mac Screenshots

Log Viewer – View Keystrokes Recorded

Log Viewer – View Screenshots Recorded

Log Viewer – View Websites Recorded in Safari and Firefox

In fact, it is not something new, but something people always ignore, which is the base of keylogger – recording. Yes, recording. Keyloggers can record every keystroke you type into Mac. Actually, the story goes like this:

One of my friends is a freelancer. She writes light and funny fiction favoured by teenagers and posts to a fiction site. She note down every word and story which moves readers.

But her little son Dante never does a good turn to her work. The aged-7 gentleman loves the Internet very much. To keep an eye on his on-line activities, my friend installed a keylogger software on her Mac. Dante always uses her Mac and inevitablly balls it up every time. And my friend had never considered creating a client account for Dante. It was at first not serious because there was nothing important lost or damaged.

However, things changed last time. All her drafts in store were lost after Dante finished his Mac journey! With the approaching of deadline to update the fiction, she became more and more anxiety because she still can not get back the previous sense of words that be able to stir readers’ heart. She was stuck in writers’ block and was about to come to me for grumble.

But, she told me later, she came across the mind that once she read about her story in the log emails from Aobo keylogger. She began to check her emails immediately and gradually picked out all things she typed.

After finishing the fiction, she chatted with me on-line and told me the whole story. With her permission, I share this story to remind all of you that Aobo Mac keylogger can also be used to back up important drafts.

I have 2 devices in my house, one is used for my work, and the other mac laptop is in my children’s room. Taking into account their online safety, I think parental control is necessary. At last, I got a trial of one type of mac keylogger. It can record all keystrokes typed on any application and capture the desktop screenshots, then secretly send the logs to my email. So checking emails becomes a routine.

It was a normal day. After I finish the task, I opened my email and checked the new information as usual. It was an email from the Mac parental control software. The email showed clearly the websites visited, chatting messages and netgame screenshots. When I read the message of my 12-year-old girl, I smelled something. She was talking with a guy every late night during the past November. Am I too paranoid? I love my children and I would like to take any measure to protect them. I must be clear about the overall situation. But I was in the trial period and only 3 days left. After so nice a trial experience, I bought the keylogger service without hesitation, so I could get continued emails from the software.

However, it never rains but it pours. The next day, a thief came when we were out. Loss was huge including 2 computers, one digital camera and bucks. I called the police, and they brushed me off. Obviously they had handled so many such cases. In these days, home burglary is on the rise. As to the thief, there was no clue. I never expect that I can get back my stolen computer one day.

Two days after the burglary case,  my office computer hinted me getting a new email when I was bargaining with my client. The data in the email really astonished me! A guy swanked his big affair and loot to another. It was the thief! He must be using the computer which I had installed parental control software that sent his information without his knowing.  I consulted the software manufacture, asking about if I could receive the logged keys and screenshots by email as before, thanks god  they replied me timely that I could start receiving the emails with the screenshoots and logged keys again without having my computer back if the computer is connected to Internet. In the next days, I received some emails uninterruptedly, then I handed over this evidence to the police. The anxiously waiting days were so long, but the burglars eventually get caught and arrested. I got back of my property.

That’s all the surprised accident, I must appreciate the software after service and their sound quality products. Owning to them, I can  minimize my loss as well as catch the criminal. However, it’s not the end. Kids online safety still bother me. I need to rely on the parental control software for helping  me keep an eye on my children .

I’m telling you this story, maybe it makes you a sense of keylogger. If yours is PC, installing a remote spy software could be beneficial some day.

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